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10 good reasons for choosing the NUT

  1. The NUT is the largest and most influential teachers' organisation in England and Wales.
  2. The NUT wants one teachers' organisation to speak for the whole profession.
  3. The NUT has a network of experienced and qualified staff, including a practising solicitor, in each of its offices throughout the English regions and in Wales to give immediate cover to teachers in trouble - legal and professional advice, guidance and support.
  4. The NUT has a first rate legal service that has taken on the Government in the courts and won, protecting all teachers from the illegal imposition of damaging conditions, in addition to winning many millions of pounds on behalf of members in various forms of compensation.
  5. The NUT offers a wide range of high quality, good value benefits and services from selected suppliers.
  6. The NUT offers its members a range of opportunities for high quality professional development in a "no threat, no blame" climate.
  7. The NUT is a trade union and a professional association, working on professional and curricular issues as well as conditions of service and pay.
  8. Only the NUT recruits only qualified teachers, or those who are on courses or in posts that will lead to teacher qualification so it is best placed to speak on behalf of the profession.
  9. The NUT is prepared to support its members through industrial action but only when all other procedures have failed to achieve the necessary protection that allows teachers to teach more effectively.
  10. The NUT is affiliated to the TUC but is not affiliated to any political party so it can speak freely and independently to the Government.